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DATA SHEET AND SPECIFICATIONS
Powering the modern data center Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure (CI) has helped thousands of global
enterprise customers transform their IT environments to become more agile,
reliable, and cost-effective. Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure systems integrate
enterprise-class technologies—including compute, network, storage,
virtualization, and management—into one engineered system that is engineered,
manufactured, managed, supported, and sustained as one. These systems
eliminate the slow, complex, and costly process of procuring, assembling, and the
ongoing maintenance of traditional in-house integration approaches.
Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure overview Dell EMC VxBlock Systems deliver simple IT solutions from general-purpose
workloads to mission-critical use cases, significantly reducing costs, time-to-
deploy, and ongoing management/maintenance time, enabling your IT staff to
spend more time focused on business outcomes and on new initiatives than on
managing the IT infrastructure and keeping the lights on.
Unsurpassed simplicity VxBlock Systems bring together leading technologies from Dell EMC, Cisco, and
VMware. All system elements are pre-integrated, pre-configured, then tested and
validated before shipping. Seamless integration allows you to operate and
manage your system as a single product, rather than as individual, siloed
components. Ongoing, component-level testing, and qualification result in
drastically simplified updates and maintenances. The end result is significant time
and resource savings throughout the systems’ life cycle.
Fastest and easiest way to modernize your infrastructure VxBlock Systems are one of the fastest and easiest ways to modernize a data
center with all-flash storage, including Dell EMC Unity, XtremIO, and VMAX
options. All-flash VxBlock Systems are ideal for mixed-workload consolidation,
applications that require extreme performance and scale, mission-critical
Dell EMC VxBlock Systems
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DELL EMC VXBLOCK SYSTEMS The industry-leading* CI that delivers turnkey SAN-based solutions for mission-critical workloads
ESSENTIALS
Simplified IT
Improved business agility
Quicker time-to-value
Less time to maintain
Increased business responsiveness
DELL EMC VXBLOCK SYSTEM
IDC White Paper: Modernizing Mission-Critical Applications with VxBlock
* Source: IDC Worldwide 3Q17 Converged Systems Tracker
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“The VxBlock has been an enormous
plus for us. It gives us time.”
Mark Wiseley, Senior Director of IT, Palmer
College
“Installing the converged VxBlock
System allowed us to make a ten-
year step forward in technology with a
single purchase. By using the VxBlock
System to transform our data centre,
we now have the ability to deploy
solutions in hours as opposed to
weeks”
Ryan Deppe, Network Operations
Supervisor, Cianbro Corporation
“Dell EMC listens and responds, and
gives us better solutions—month after
month, year after year. USD is a
world-class Higher Education
Experience business supported by a
world-class IT infrastructure—and Dell
EMC is at the heart of that.”
Mike Somerville, NISS Manager – Systems
Support & Chief Cloud Evangelist, University
of San Diego
“We’re now 100 percent responsive to
the business.”
Michael Tomkins, Chief Technology Officer,
Fox Sports Australia
“Every day we’ve got to do things
better than we did the day before and
be even more competitive if we’re
going to thrive in this competitive
electric market. Because of that, it has
required us to be more agile, bringing
cost savings back to the business and
investing those in new innovation.”
Kevin Chase, Senior VP and Chief
Information Officer, Energy Future Holdings
Corp
applications, and whenever you are looking for the highest storage density at the
lowest operational total cost of ownership (TCO).
Streamlined deployments With multivendor solutions, considerable time and resources are devoted to
sourcing, integrating, testing, validating, and ongoing maintenance. VxBlock
Systems are factory-integrated and can be delivered within 60 days of order with
an almost immediate time-to-value thereafter.
System sustainability Rely on the Dell EMC Release Certification Matrix (RCM) to streamline software
release planning and ongoing configuration management across all converged
infrastructure components. Dell EMC quality assurance tests for interoperability of
hardware and software ensures that your system and data center experience
dramatically reduced downtime due to updates and scheduled maintenance. This
unique experience spans across all VxBlock Systems for an unmatched customer
experience.
Converged System Management Dell EMC Vision Intelligent Operations is health and life cycle management
software at its best. Its intelligence, automation, and visualization facilitate
standardized, repeatable IT processes—making it easier to keep your data
center/hybrid-cloud environment healthy, stable, optimized, and secure. The
software manages compute, network, storage, and virtualization components
together as a single system and multiple systems as a single pool of resources.
Functions include health, RCM compliance, and security compliance
management.
Simple to scale and easy to share resources Dell EMC Vscale Architecture provides the most flexible and optimal way to scale
out data centers and share resources across converged infrastructure systems,
hyper-converged systems, and non-converged systems. Through the Dell EMC
Vscale Fabric, a scalable spine-leaf network fabric, you can connect multiple
systems and modular components to create a shared pool of resources.
Single-call support Dell EMC delivers fully integrated, 24/7 support with a single phone call. There’s
never any finger-pointing between vendors, and you can always rely on our fully
cross-trained team for a fast resolution to any problem.
Integrated data protection For reliable backup and recovery, your converged systems are built with data
protection optimized for your specific needs. Dell EMC offers the most advanced
data deduplication, replication, and data protection technologies for achieving
your Recover Point Objective (RPO) and Recover Time Objective (RTO)
requirements.
Security and compliance VxBlock Systems are engineered to ensure the highest levels of security and are
built to simplify complicated compliance requirements. All components and
software are tested and validated to eliminate security vulnerabilities and to
enhance performance and integrity. In addition, Vision software automates the
inspection and other time-consuming aspects of system security and software
compliance policy, greatly reducing the time needed to pinpoint and eliminate
security vulnerabilities.
#1 FOR A REASON
Delivering real business results
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VxBlock Systems VxBlock Systems provide a wide range of solutions to meet your requirements for
size, performance, and scalability. VxBlock Systems are built with industry-leading
compute and networking from Cisco, storage from Dell EMC with Dell EMC Unity,
XtremIO, and VMAX, and virtual distributed switching from VMware.
Midrange scale for general-purpose, file, and block workloads The VxBlock System 350 is agile and highly scalable. It’s a unified, converged
infrastructure that is designed for general-purpose mixed workloads. These
systems can be easily tailored to meet specific workload or SLA requirements like
VDI, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, and SAP while minimizing risks and costs.
Available with powerful Dell EMC Unity all-flash (and hybrid-flash) storage
options, these are perfect for general-purpose mixed workloads.
All-Flash Converged Infrastructures targeting data reduction and copy- friendly workflows The VxBlock System 540 is optimized for data reduction and copy-friendly
workflows, such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and test and development
environments. Leveraging Dell EMC XtremIO storage, with inline efficiencies,
these systems deliver scale-out performance at ultralow latency.
The most advanced data services in a Converged Infrastructure The VxBlock System 740 is the industry’s most advanced intelligent converged
system with unmatched performance, scalability, and availability for the most
demanding mission-critical applications. Dell EMC VMAX all-flash storage delivers
multidimensional scale, high IOPS for extreme levels of performance with low
latency. It is ideal for large-scale mixed workload consolidation and mission-
critical workloads, such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and VDI.
Converged Technology Extensions Dell Converged Technology Extensions provide an innovative way to expand and
enhance a converged system quickly and easily by adding compute or storage
outside of the original system. They are available for Cisco UCS and Dell EMC
storage and support multiarray storage combinations.
Add Dell EMC Unity all flash with inline data reduction and rich data services for
mixed workloads like databases, data warehouses, transactional workloads, and
virtualization applications.
Add XtremIO X2 all flash for linear growth, massive I/O performance, and
workload consolidation. With a scale-out design, it is ideal for data reduction and
copy-friendly workflows, such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and test and
development environments.
The VxBlock Systems portfolio
“First of all, it’s saving us on the maintenance
and support funding. That allows us to take
those remaining investment dollars and
actually put them into new innovative
investment.”
Chad Eckes, Executive Vice President and CFO,
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
“Our mission to deliver a dynamic and
evolving set of core services and innovative
technologies essential to the citizens is critical.
Dell EMC is helping the City of Virginia Beach
achieve this mission by enabling us to
develop and implement the best technology
solutions to meet those demands.”
Matthew Arvay, former CIO, City of Virginia Beach,
VA
“It provided us the flexibility we needed for
both our revenue-generating mixed workloads
and all-flash back end.”
Carlos Sotero, IT Director, Insight
“It’s pre-built and pre-tested, and offered us
high availability, scalability, and automation to
make provisioning new services faster and
more efficient.”
Jonas Esko, IT Architect Manager, LKAB
“We have a small IT staff and the minimal
maintenance time required allows us to work
on projects that help grow our business rather
than just “keep the lights on.”
Tom Nollan, Director of IT, Old Dutch Foods
“Digital transformation starts with setting the
right IT foundations. You don't just go straight
to a digitally transformed business – it is a
continuous journey”
Dickon Smart-Gillf, CIO Bumrungrad International
Hospital
#1 FOR A REASON
Delivering real business results
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Add VMAX all-flash configurations to support your large-scale data center consolidation, diverse and heavy-transaction workloads,
data warehousing, analytics, and mission-critical applications.
Add the new generation Isilon for scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) capacity to address the increased performance and
scaling needs for file-based and data-driven applications. It’s optimized for large-scale, unstructured data, including videos, pictures,
audios, texts, and genomic/mobile data.
VxBlock Systems Specifications
System VxBlock System 350 VxBlock System 540 VxBlock System 740
Compute Cisco UCS Server Chassis
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers (including the Cisco UCS B-Series B200 M4, B260 M4, B420 M4, B460 M4 and the B200 M5) and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Mout Servers (including the Cisco UCS C-Series C220 M4 and C220 M4)
Cisco UCS 2204XP/2208XP Series Fabric Extenders
Cisco UCS 6246/6296UP Fabric Interconnects
Cisco USC Virtual Interface Card 1227, 1240, 1280, 1340 and 1380
Min/Max. Servers N/A NA NA
Min/Max. Chassis 2/32 2/24 2/64
Min/Max. Blades 2/256 2/256 2/512
Network Nexus 9396 Nexus 93180YC-EX Nexus 3172TQ
Cisco ACI
MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch MDS 9396S MDS 9706 Multilayer Director
Nexus 9396 Nexus 93180YC-EX Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5596UP Nexus 3172TO
Cisco ACI
MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch MDS 9396S MDS 9706 Multilayer Director
Nexus 9396 Nexus 93180YC-EX Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5596UP Nexus 3172TO
Cisco ACI
MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch MDS 9396S MDS 9706 Multilayer Director
Storage
All available as Converged Technology Extensions - Isilon gen 6 is also available as a technology extension
Dell EMC Unity 350F, 450F, 550F and 650F
Dell EMC Unity 300, 400, 500 and 600
Dell EMC XtremIO (X1)
1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 X-Brick Cluster
(XtremIO X2 is also available as a Tech Extension)
Dell EMC VMAX 250F and 950F
Max Raw Storage Capacity
Up to 16 PB 320 TB Up to 5 PB
Virtualization VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus (with VDS)
VMware NSX
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Dell EMC PowerPath/VE
Management Dell EMC Vision Intelligent Operations